State v. Twining’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Ik was further argued that, conceding the statute under which this indictment is found, to be valid, the document exhibited in this case cannot be said to be a false paper within the meaning of the act, the contention being that ‘knowingly subscribes or exhibits any false paper’ means negotiable paper, or some paper which is a part of the assets of the bank. "We are unable to give this narrow construction to these words, in the connection in which they stand in the statute. We think it means what it says ‘ subscribes or exhibits any false paper, with intent to deceive the examiner. ’ Any other construction destroys all force to the word ‘ subscribes,’ and any construction which sustains the theory that an offense exists by subscribing a false paper also upholds the construction that to exhibit such false paper to the examiner, with intent to deceive, is within the statute. But it is further insisted that ‘the false paper must be one that can deceive the examiner as to the financial condition of the corporation.’ We agree with that view. We think under the proof that in exhibiting this paper it was the purpose of the defendants to deceive the examiner as to the financial condition of the bank. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Pierson